A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Selected Cases and Statutes Including All Statutes Required for the California Bar Exam, 2009-2010

<p> Whether you're using Dukeminier, Sitkoff, and Lindgren's, <i>Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Eighth Edition</i> or any other Property or Wills, Trusts, and Estates casebook, be sure to use <b>A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates</b>. This <b>2009-2010 Supplement</b> includes all of the statutes required for The California Bar Exam plus selected additional statutes covering: </p><ul><li> Intestate succession </li><li> Powers of appointment </li><li> Wills, no-contest clauses </li><li> Future interests </li><li> Non-probate transfers </li><li> Rights of creditors to reach trust assets </li><li> Disqualified transferees </li></ul><p><b><i>A California Companion</i> features thirty-six principal California cases determining:</b></p><ul><li> Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children </li><li> Equitable adoption </li><li> Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent </li><li> Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills </li><li> Forfeiture for elder abuse </li><li> Disqualified transferees </li><li> Attorney liability to intended beneficiaries for malpractice </li><li> Trust revocation </li><li> Rights of creditors in trust assets </li><li> Rights of beneficiaries to trust accounting </li></ul><p><b>New in the 2009–2010 Edition</b></p><p><i>Major statutory changes:</i></p><ul><li>§§ 23130-23135 (no contest clause) </li><li>§ 6110(c)(2) (allows excuse of compliance with certain formalities for execution of wills) </li><li>§ 15212 (pet trusts) </li></ul><p><i>New cases:</i></p><ul><li> Estate of Earley </li><li> Estate of Reeves </li><li> Estate of Will </li><li> Vernoff v. Astrue </li><li> Brown v. LaBow </li><li> Cabral v. Soares </li><li> Estate of Shellenbarger </li><li> Masry v. Masry </li><li> In re Neuton </li><li> Estate of Williams </li><li> Dorn v. Solomon </li><li> Estate of Ivey </li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>